92 LABRIDiE. 



b. A-dult : stuffed. Madeira. From Mr. Lowe's Collection. (Type 



of A. imbricatus, Lowe.) 

 c-e. Very fine specimens. Madeira. Presented by J. Y. Johnson, 



Esq. 

 /. Adult : skeleton Madeira, Presented by the Rev. R. T. Lowe. 



The abdominal portion of the vertebral column, in this species, 

 exceeds in length the caudal. 



2. Acantholabrus coucliii. 



Labrus luscus, Couch in Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist. v. pp. 18, 742. fig. 121 ; 



Jen. Man. p. 400; Yarr. Brit. Fish edit. 1. i. p. 300 (not L.). 

 Acantholabrus couchii, Ciw. Sf Val. xiii. p. 248; Yarr. Brit. Fish. edit. 2. 



i. p. 337, and edit. 3. i. p. 514. 



D-l- A.|. 



The height of the body is less than one-fourth of the total 

 length. A black spot on the back of the tail, at the base of the 

 caudal fin. 



Coast of Cornwall. 



Only, one specimen, from which Mr. Couch has given his descrip- 

 tion, has occurred, and it was not preserved. All the other accounts 

 of the fish are reproductions of Mr. Couch's original description. Con- 

 sidering the frequent cases of variation in the number of the spines 

 of the genera Labrus and Acantholabrus, we cannot help thinking 

 that the specimen observed was an individual variety. 



8. CENTROLABRUS. 

 Acantholabrus, sp., Cuv. ^- Val, 



Body compressed, oblong, covered with scales of moderate size ; 

 imbricate scales on the cheeks and opercles. Teeth in the jaws in a 

 single series, conical'; no posterior canine tooth. Dorsal spines nu- 

 merous, 16-20 ; anal spines more than three. Lateral line not in- 

 terrupted. 



Atlantic coasts of Europe and Greenland. 



^ 1. Centrolahrus exoletus. 



Strom, Sondm. i. p. 267. no. 3. 



Labrus exoletus, L. Syst. i. p. 479, and Faun. Suec. p. 117 ; Miill. Prodr. 



Zool. Dan. p. 46 ; Fair. Faun. Grdnl. p. 166 ; Betz. Faun. Suec. 



p. 335 ; Bl. Schn. p. 200 ; Niks. Prodr. p. 77 ; Fries ochEkstr. Skand. 



Fisk. p. 48. tab. 9. fig. 2. 



pentacanthus, Lacep. iii. p. 503. 



Crenilabrus microstoma, Thomps. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 55, and 



May. Zool. <V Bot. ii. p. 446. pi. 14, and Nat. Hist. Irel. iv. p. 132. 

 Rock-Cook, Couch, Corn. Faun. p. 39. 



